Taiwanese Apple suppliers grapple with India's COVID crisis

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Taiwanese Apple suppliers have been working to turn India into an alternative production base to China. (Source photos by Reuters and Nikkei)

LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- Steven, a manager at a Taiwanese tech industrial park developer, touched down in Taipei on Saturday for the first time since being stationed in Bangalore more than a year and a half ago.

He was welcomed by a recently raised COVID-19 alert and a stint in quarantine hundreds of kilometers from his home -- but it was still better than the situation he had left behind.

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